Around 50 newsmen were confined for over three hours until 11:00pm on Saturday at the office of the daily Janakhanta in the capital as some employees, sacked earlier on the day, staged demonstration at its main gate.
A journalist said from his confinement that, aided by the activities of a certain political party, the sacked employees of the online edition of the decades-old daily, staged demonstration in front of the office in the city鈥檚 Eskaton area.
The journalist said they were panicked since the law enforcing agencies were not responding to the repeated calls by the newspaper authority.
Finally, they were freed from confinement after the authority decided to reinstate the sacked employees.
However, Mushfiq Us Salehin, media cell joint member-secretary of National Citizen Party located near the newspaper office, said that his party was not involved in the incident.
Earlier, over 50 people, claiming themselves as sacked journalists and pro-uprising journalists as well as pro-uprising people, shouted slogans with loudspeakers at the entrance to the office building.聽 聽聽聽聽
The demonstrators claimed that the media owners were pro-fascist and were serving the agenda of the ousted Awami League.
The online edition of the Janakantha filed a report at 8:30pm that a work abstention was being held following termination of 20 journalists because of their supports to the July uprising.
The same report also said that the online version of the daily displayed a black background on August 1, highlighting the month of mourning observed by the AL over the murder of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975.聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
